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WIPO - IPOS IP Awards for 2018 Announced at Opening Ceremony of the Global Forum on IP

September 4, 2018

In front of nearly 1,000 members of the IP community in Asia-Pacific, WIPO’s Assistant Director General Mr. Yo Takagi presented two WIPO Awards – the WIPO IP Enterprise Trophy and the WIPO Users’ Trophy.  The awards ceremony took place during the opening of the Global Forum on IP held in Singapore.

WIPO Assistant Director General, Mr. Yo Takagi (5th from left) along with the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Mr. Daren Tang (far left) and Ms. Indranee Rajah, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Education (6th from right) with the WIPO – IPOS IP Award Winners for 2018 (Photo: WIPO/Willimott)

The winner of the WIPO IP Enterprise Trophy was Creative Technology Ltd, a Singapore-based company that produces innovative products in the sound industry such as headphones, speakers, amplifiers, sound cards, gaming headsets and other peripherals.

MediaTek Singapore Pte Ltd was the winner of the WIPO Users’ trophy.  According to a press release issued by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore,

MediaTek is the world’s fourth largest global fabless semiconductor company and powers more than 1.5 billion devices a year. It leads the market in chipset technology for Smart TVs, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD), Android tablets, feature phones, Optical and Blu-ray DVD players, and is the number two globally in mobile phones.

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